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I find myself very conventional: Irrfan Khan

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So, with all this handsome-ness, and a National Award, and his Cannes accolade now, his market value must have definitely gone up, isn't it? "Market value?" Yeh kya hai? Main kya koi sona hoon?" he laughs, but adds on a serious note, "I have to wait and watch. I still have to experience that. I am doing both foreign and Indian films. I am reading two-three foreign film scripts, they are interesting ones. I don't want to speak about them till something is finalised. And even now, when I think of The Lunchbox - it makes me happy. It was made with a lot of heart. I am always happy when I take my films to the international festivals - it shows the level where filmmaking in India has reached."

But log toh kehte hain na, ke covnventional hero nahi ho... "Kaun kehta hai? Woh kaun log hain? Kahan hai? Lao mere saamne," he mocks, "Haan, main Ranbir Kapoor ya Hrithik Roshan nahi hoon, but down the history of Bollywood, good actors have always had this issue. Koi bhi good-looking nahi consider kara gaya - Rajesh Khanna wasn't considered good looking initially, neither was Dilip Kumar. And when Amitabh Bachchan was a newcomer, people had an issue with his looks, ditto with Shah Rukh and Ajay Devgn. Dekho, people have tongue and mouth and they can say anything, but I am handsome and you know, people like me because of my inner Irrfan, and also the outer Irrfan. So, I don't question my looks, I am OK with it, and I think people who watch me are also fine with it."
(BCCL/K K Choudhary)

So, with all this handsome-ness, and a National Award, and his Cannes accolade now, his market value must have definitely gone up, isn't it? "Market value?" Yeh kya hai? Main kya koi sona hoon?" he laughs, but adds on a serious note, "I have to wait and watch. I still have to experience that. I am doing both foreign and Indian films. I am reading two-three foreign film scripts, they are interesting ones. I don't want to speak about them till something is finalised. And even now, when I think of The Lunchbox - it makes me happy. It was made with a lot of heart. I am always happy when I take my films to the international festivals - it shows the level where filmmaking in India has reached."
(BCCL/Jignesh Mistry)